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The 1990 romantic comedy Pretty Woman left audiences feeling good after the prostitute with a heart of gold ended up with the guy and the fairy tale ending. But Julia Roberts says that the show didn’t always end that way. In fact, the original ending was incredibly bleak. According to a recent interview that Roberts […]

Eddie Antar was the founder and proprietor of Crazy Eddie, a popular consumer electronics chain in the northeastern United States that was hugely prominent in the 1970s and early 1980s. The chain was famous for its TV commercials that aired in New York City and elsewhere featuring DJ Jerry Carroll talking about how the chain’s […]

Two films from the last eight months, 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody (about Freddie Mercury) and 2019’s Rocketman (about Elton John), had quite a few things in common. Both were about rock stars from the 1970s who were flamboyant and gay, and both were directed, at least in part, by Dexter Fletcher. Fletcher completed Bohemian Rhapsody after […]

The trailer for the highly-anticipated animated film Frozen 2 just dropped on Good Morning America, and fans of the film, which chronicles the lives of sisters Anna and Elsa, should not be disappointed in the sequel, which was six years in the making. Entertainment Tonight reported that the trailer details Elsa’s journey from the dark […]

The weekend saw a social media sensation, in regards to this year’s Captain Marvel film, that was certainly more heartwarming than some of the vitriol often greeted by that Marvel Cinematic Universe movie that was released in March. In honor of Best Friends Day, which was Saturday, the official Twitter account for Captain Marvel tweeted […]

Actor and director Jake Gyllenhaal is planning to make a movie about accused “Ivy League dad killer” Thomas Gilbert Jr., but some who know the man on trial fear that he will be glamorized in the process. PageSix says that the project has “blue blood boiling” as Gyllenhaal is planning to lend his name to […]

In 2002, Christina Aguilera gave women an empowerment track that “made us a little big stronger.” Flash forward to 2019, and there’s a new tune to add to your “Fighter” playlist; this time, it’s from Disney. The Walt Disney Company certainly has another hit on its hands with the new live-action remake of Aladdin. While […]

The Babadook was a 2004 horror film directed by Jennifer Kent released in Australia but became popular worldwide. Starring Essie Davis, it told the story of a top-hatted demon who haunts a house. Over the course of its popularity, the character of the Babadook, for strange and somewhat mysterious reasons, eventually became an LGBTQ icon. […]

Although it’s no secret that legendary singer Beyonce is starring in Disney’s live-action remake of the popular animated film The Lion King, fans had yet to hear her voice in the promotional materials until Monday, when a new trailer was released opening with Beyonce’s voice as Nala, reported The Daily Mail. In the “Single Ladies” […]

The Motion Picture Academy this week announced this year’s winners of honorary Oscars. The four recipients include director David Lynch, actor Wes Studi, and writer/director Lina Wertmüller. Meanwhile, Geena Davis will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Academy announced on its official website. The honorary Oscars were moved off of the main Oscar ceremony […]

The new biographical film about the life off iconic rock star Elton John, Rocketman, opened on Friday, raking in $22 million in the U.S. as Deadline reported. Now, the star’s younger half-brother said that the movie falsely portrays their father, Stanley Dwight, as an uncaring monster, and that the character portrayed by veteran British actor […]

An award-winning, star-studded cast is coming together for a remake of the classic Daphne du Maurier novel, Rebecca. The last incarnation was made for British television with actors Charles Dance, Diana Rigg, and Emilia Fox, but this new production is for Netflix and is being produced by the production company, Working Title. The Hollywood Reporter […]

When Bohemian Rhapsody, the popular biopic about the band, Queen, was released last year there were news stories that the movie’s specific references to homosexualiy had been censored in various foreign countries, including China, per Time. Considering how notoriously chaste that film was, the censorship only affected about two minutes of screen time. With the […]

Earlier this month, Variety reported that Robert Pattinson was the choice as the next actor to play Batman on the big screen. Deadline reported later that night that while Pattinson was a front-runner, Nicholas Hoult also had a shot, per The Inquisitr. Now, per Deadline, Pattinson officially has the part after approval came from Warner […]

A new movie adaptation of the book series Clifford, The Big Red Dog will start shooting in June in New York. It will star comedian Jack Whitehall and the rising star of the HBO series Big Little Lies, Darby Camp. The Hollywood Reporter says that the live-action movie project of Clifford will be directed by […]

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame. Black Widow has officially begun filming in Norway, and Scarlett Johansson has been spotted on set. According to Screen Rant, the first set photos from the film have been revealed, courtesy of Norwegian website Dagbladet. Scarlett — and the rest of the cast and crew — are […]

In 2010, Disney*Pixar released Toy Story 3, which everyone thought was the ultimate ending to the 15-year story that touched the hearts of millions. Then, it was revealed that there was more to the tale, and Toy Story 4 was announced for release in the summer of 2019. There are those who believe it had […]

Sylvester Stallone does not have warm and fuzzy memories of his first meeting with his Rocky IV co-star Dolph Lundgren back in the 1980s. The actor-director recently told Cannes audiences that when he first met Lundgren — who played Rocky Balboa’s nemesis, Ivan Drago, in the 1985 Rocky sequel — he “hated him immediately.” Stallone, […]

Fans have really taken to the new movie Brightburn which opened in theaters this weekend, but others will soon catch on. Some feel as if it is just another horror movie, but they’re beginning to realize there is much more to the story. This film is a “what if” tale about the history of Superman […]

Netflix’s rift with Cannes, one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world, has been well documented. The French film festival refused to screen movies produced by Netflix because the streaming giant wouldn’t concede to the demand of not releasing the movies at the same time as their screenings at Cannes. Several filmmakers sided […]

Creating the Downton Abbey storyline and characters for the popular television series was complicated enough, but after the show ended, Julian Fellowes agreed to write and produce a movie version for the big screen, and found the task much more difficult than he anticipated. Deadline says that Fellowes confided that even though it was nice […]

Ever since it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January, Leaving Neverland — the documentary in which two men allege that Michael Jackson molested them over the course of several years — has been hugely controversial. The film debuted on HBO in March, with the full support of Oprah Winfrey, and soon drew a […]

Back in 1991, James Cameron released the epic Terminator 2: Judgment Day — a film which will likely go down as one of the greatest sequels ever created. Since that time, there have been three more movies in the franchise, films which never seemed to translate as well — critically or commercially — as the […]

Grumpy Old Men was a popular comedy that came out in 1993 and starred longtime co-stars Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as feuding old guys. The film, which co-starred Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith, Ossie Davis, and Kevin Pollak, led to a sequel two years later called Grumpier Old Men. Lemmon and Matthau are both long dead, […]

Downton Abbey fans are rejoicing as not one, but two different trailers for the feature-length film dropped earlier today, per Entertainment Weekly. The plot of the movie revolves around a royal visit coming to Downton. Director Michael Engler hinted last year that the film would center around an “event,” and the trailer finally confirmed that […]

It’s only a matter of days now until the Spice Girls kick off their stadium tour across the U.K. and Ireland. If that isn’t enough, their Spice World movie released in 1997 is going to return to cinema screens next month nationally across the U.K. According to Bustle, the iconic film will return to the […]

Quentin Tarantino really wants audiences to be surprised by his latest film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The famed director posted an unusual request on Twitter and Instagram ahead of his ninth film’s premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this week in which he issued an appeal to early viewers to keep things spoiler-free […]

While his transformation usually only took mere seconds, it has taken a very long time for He-Man to find his way back to the big screen. Now, it seems as if the new live-action version of Masters of the Universe has found its time to enrich the minds of new audiences. Sony Pictures and Mattel […]

Noah Centineo, the actor known for such Netflix romantic comedies as To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and Sierra Burgess Is a Loser, has landed a high-profile new role: That of He-Man, the 1980s cartoon hero. Per Variety, Centineo will play the leading role in Masters of the Universe, a new cinematic take on […]

Robert Pattinson is set to join an exclusive club that includes the likes of Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian Bale, and Ben Affleck. The former Twilight actor, who has emerged in recent years as a respected actor in indie films, is in talks to take over the role of Batman in the next […]

When some old tweets of James Gunn resurfaced and began making trouble for the comic book director, things didn’t look good. Sure, they were old and he had already addressed them and apologized for them in the past, but it didn’t matter as Disney fired him anyway. Now, Gunn has broken his silence regarding his […]

Horror movie remakes are absolutely nothing new, but they seem to be happening in a much quicker fashion than they used to be. Back in 2004, James Wan and Leigh Whannell created the Saw franchise, which shocked the world and spawned many sequels. Now, less than two decades later, the series is already being “reimagined,” […]

Back in 1984, a team of four men banded together to fight ghosts and they let everyone know they were ready to believe them. Ghostbusters is by no means a bomb or to be considered a failure, but the movie is so much bigger than the $295 million it took in at the worldwide box […]

After two days of wildly varying opinions being cast forth onto social media by excited or agitated Game of Thrones fans — largely over the direction of the final season of the show — there is now even more controversial news emerging. David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, showrunners for GoT — will be behind the […]

A former movie star repeatedly accused of anti-Semitism is teaming up with a Jewish co-star for a new film whose plot touches on a family that’s been at the center of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories for over 100 years. Mel Gibson is set to star with Shia LaBeouf in Rothchild, which is described as a “black […]

Doris Day died at 97 on Monday. Like many performers of her time, Day wasn’t limited to one talent. Having gotten her start as a big band singer, within a decade she was making the transition to the silver screen. However, despite her decades-long career as a film actress, she continued to stick to her […]

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame. Millions have flocked to theaters to see Avengers: Endgame over the past couple of weeks, which means that millions of people are still recovering from some pretty serious deaths. Even though the deceased heroes from Avengers: Infinity War were resurrected in Endgame, that didn’t ease the pain […]

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame. Marvel Studios is officially done with protecting spoilers for Avengers: Endgame. The spoiler ban was lifted on Monday, meaning fans and the cast were allowed to discuss the movie freely on the internet without being judged for giving away any of the film’s biggest moments. Once the […]

A few days prior to the release of Pokémon Detective Pikachu, Ryan Reynolds sent his 13.6 million followers into a frenzy when he tweeted what claimed to be a leak of the “full” movie. The actor’s tweet featured an embed of a tweet from another account called Inspector Pikachu, which was created this month. The […]

Pokémon Detective Pikachu made its theatrical debut this weekend. According to Forbes, the live-action Pokémon movie’s opening day was a smashing success as it beat out Avengers: Endgame with $21 million on Friday. The movie contains a CGI recreation of several members of the Pokédex, including Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Psyduck, Jigglypuff, and Lickitung. According to an […]

Pokémon Detective Pikachu starring Ryan Reynolds as the voice of Detective Pikachu made its theatrical debut yesterday. According to Forbes, opening day was a success for the newest addition to the Pokémon franchise, as the film topped Avengers: Endgame by pulling in $21 million on Friday. That figure does include the $5.7 million the movie […]

There are a lot of movies from the ’90s which weren’t necessarily award-winning flicks, but that fans love watching over and over again. One of those is the Sylvester Stallone film, Cliffhanger, which hit theaters in 1993 and did incredibly well at the box office while becoming a cult classic. Now, almost 30 years later, […]

The Inquirer reports that John Wick: Chapter 3 actress Halle Berry is preparing to tackle her first film, the action-drama Bruised, as a director. The film begins shooting this summer on the East Coast of the United States and follows female MMA fighter Jackie Justice, who must face her demons when her estranged son reappears […]

Netflix just surprise-dropped a $700 million Chinese blockbuster, The Wandering Earth, on its platform but not many people have noticed. The sci-fi movie about humanity’s attempts to save the Earth from the destructive powers of the sun, directed by Frant Gwo, released earlier this year in Chinese theaters to much fanfare. Within weeks, it established […]

Avengers: Endgame is the No. 1 movie in the world, and it is well on its way to becoming the highest-grossing film of all time. As we all watch records fall to the Marvel epic, it’s hard to believe that the movie actually had a different title at one point. With the movie now being […]

After Disney’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox, it was evident that there would be a lot of changes coming to The Walt Disney Company movie studios. Little was known as to what creative endeavors would come about due to that huge purchase, but the impacts are now being felt. On Tuesday, Disney and Lucasfilm announced […]

We live in a time where the Walt Disney Company is taking their animated classics and turning them into live-action remakes for a different generation. One of those is Lady and the Tramp, a remake that will only be available on the company’s new streaming service Disney+, which is due out in November. Now, it […]

The clown prince of horror drummed up a lot more interest than expected with the first chapter of his two-part nightmare, but will the second It film be as successful? Pennywise the clown is going to return to the big screen this fall with Stephen King’s It: Chapter Two, which will be directed by Andy […]

According to Tiffany Haddish, production on the sequel to the successful movie Girls Trip may have hit a wall, Page Six reports. While co-stars Queen Latifah and Regina Hall have indicated that progress on the hit comedy is smooth, Haddish recently made a comment suggesting the situation was considerably grimmer. Last week, Haddish was present […]

Superstar Elton John had nothing but good things to say when he watched actor Taron Egerton portray him in the new biopic Rocketman, which chronicles John’s breakout years as a performer. The Grammy-winning singer made an unannounced visit to the production set of the movie in London last October, where he was “amazed,” according to […]